PURPOSE:To make highly precise focus detection possible by suitably establishing the construction of an optical means to form the distribution of light quality on a body image formed through an objective lens on the face of a light receiving means and the construction of a masking means to specify plural distance measuring visual fields. CONSTITUTION:Since the distribution of light quantity on two...

In general, used beer, alcoholic drink, soft drink or medical bottles are collected to be used again. Such used returnable bottles often have foreign matters or contaminants such as dust and leavings or cracks, and they must be removed from the bottling line before or after the bottle cleaning process. This invention positively satisfies such a requirement. The foreign matter detecting device comp...

PURPOSE:To suppress a load variation, to extend the service life of vacuum composing element parts, and to reduce the superhigh vacuum reaching time, by making the axial centers of a slide shaft and a rotation drive shaft coincident, giving a liquid nitrogen trapping function to the slide shaft, and at the same time, cooling the periphery of a ball screw and a ball screw nut. CONSTITUTION:To an ex...

Method and apparatus for bending glass sheets preheated to bending temperature by making glass sheets travel simultaneously on a principal shaping bed whose lengthwise trajectory is substantially circular or substantially conical of revolution and one or two secondary shaping beds whose generatrices are inclined in relation to those of the principal bed. It applies especially to the production of ...

BREVET D'INVENTION PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF D'OBTENTION DE FEUILLES DE VERRE BOMBEES L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de bombage de feuilles de verre préchauffées à température de bombage par défilement des feuilles de verre simultanément sur un lit principal de conformation dont la trajectoire longitudinale est substantiellement circulaire ou substantiellement conique de révolution e...

A sliding closure unit for controlling the discharge of molten metal from a metallurgical vessel includes a stationary refractory plate, a stationary housing assembly for mounting the stationary refractory plate on the metallurgical vessel, a movable refractory plate, the stationary and movable refractory plates having complementary, abutting relative sliding surfaces, and a movable frame mounting...

PURPOSE:To heighten the responsiveness of slip control with simple structure by controlling a braking liquid pressure adjusting means for adjusting braking pressure by the mechanical displacement of a piezoelectric element, in such a way that the slip value of a wheel becomes the specified value. CONSTITUTION:A braking liquid pressure regulating means 27 is assembled into the caliber 15 of a braki...

PURPOSE:To enable constantly appropriate slip control by adjusting voltage in such a way that supply voltage to a piezoelectric element is within a range of the specified upper-lower limit value in a device for regulating braking force to a wheel during slip control utilizing the mechanical displacement of the piezoelectric element. CONSTITUTION:A braking liquid pressure regulating means 27 is ass...

PURPOSE:To positively prevent the generation of unprepared braking force by providing a braking liquid pressure regulating means using a piezoelectric element, and forming such structure that braking force is not substantially generated by a braking means when control voltage to the piezoelectric element is the maximum value in the non- generated state of braking liquid pressure. CONSTITUTION:A br...

PURPOSE:To perform slip control of desirable responsiveness with simple structure by assembling a second braking means, provided with a piezoelectric element, into the caliber of a first braking means for receiving braking pressure to provide braking force, and giving priority to the control of the piezoelectric element at the time of detecting a slip. CONSTITUTION:A branch pipe 25 reaching the wh...

PURPOSE:To provide a solid polymer electrolyte composed of ceramic fine particles having alkali metal sulfonate group, a matrix polymer and an alkali metal salt electrolyte substance, having high ionic conductance and useful for cells, various sensors, etc. CONSTITUTION:The objective solid polymer electrolyte is composed of (A) fine particles produced by bonding an alkali metal sulfonate group to ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a hermetically sealed metal oxide-hydrogen alkaline storage battery having superior electric discharge characteristics by using a hydrogen occluding alloy composed of a mixture of three or more kinds of rare earth metals, Ni, Mn, Al, Co, Ge, etc., in a specified ratio as the negative electrode. CONSTITUTION:A hydrogen occluding alloy represented by a general formula MmNiaMnbAcCod...

PURPOSE:To store hydrogen (heavy hydrogen) in the above hydrogen (heavy hydrogen) storage metal without using an electric power source by using a hydrogen (heavy hydrogen) storage metal as a cathode, irradiating an n-type semiconductor as an anode with light, and subjecting an electrolyte to photoelectrolysis. CONSTITUTION:A hydrogen (heavy hydrogen) storage metal (e.g. Pd, Ti-Fe alloy, La-Ni rare...

PURPOSE:To simplify the system of this device by storing a specific water- insoluble Fluorinert solution in a storage section, keeping this Fluorinert solution at a temperature of 0 deg.C or below, and spraying water in an ice heat storage tank over the Fluorinert solution in the storage section. CONSTITUTION:A water-insoluble Fluorinert solution 12 whose specific gravity is 1.5 times water and wh...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to take out cold heat with a higher efficiency by returning cooled water separated from ice at a water separator to a main pipeline by way of a load side heat exchanger, mixing return water with the ice water in the main pipeline at a return water mixing section, and feeding the mixed water in said water separator. CONSTITUTION:Cooled water heated by way of a load side ...

PURPOSE:To raise activity of alcohol yeast after total immobilization, by producing ethanol under an anaerobic condition for a given period and repeating process to activate the totally immobilized yeast under an aerobic condition for a given period. CONSTITUTION:A yeast which is totally immobilized by a photosensive polyvinyl alcohol prepolymer containing a stilbazolium group at the side chain as...

Fremgangsmåte og anordning for fremstilling avflerlagsfilm med en foreskrevet tykkelsesgradient eller-fordeling for ett eller flere materialer gjennom filmenstykkelse.; Multilayer films are generated by dividing a first stream comprised of discrete layers of one or more materials into a plurality of branch streams (14,16,18,20), redirecting or repositioning (40) the branch streams, expanding (48) ...

The invention relates to the production of individual knitted articles, such as edges, collars and the like, these being knitted by means of separating courses from temperature-sensitive thread material to form a continuous knitted-fabric web, and the separating courses subsequently being melted by the action of heat. The process is used in the field of dry textile finishing. According to the inve...

Multilayer films are generated by dividing a first stream comprised of discrete layers of one or more materials into a plurality of branch streams (14,16,18,20), redirecting or repositioning (40) the branch streams, expanding (48) and contracting (54) the branch streams in a symmetrical fashion, and recombining (56) the branch streams to form a second stream having a greater number of discrete lay...

PCT No. PCT/SE87/00560 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 5, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 5, 1988 PCT Filed Nov. 26, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO88/04256 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 1988.The invention has as its object a drag anchor which is simple to manufacture and provides an effective grip in the bottom material where the anchor is to be used, besides which the anchor can be executed with a very low weight. The invention, w...